Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-04
If the memory of that day
ShC uld runlG now one feather,
Why, raise The fan and brush away
The past and me together.

The past and me together.
Lord BegConsfeld once ssid: SIN the
hand Of Spanish lady the fan is 3 Wea.
pom that puts 20 shame the strategy Of g
regiment OF generals" The late Premier
would have oe6n nearer right if he had,
instead Of limiting 1t 10 q Spanish lady,
left off the qualifying word, for the fan
has been successfully welded in many
another woman outside of the Spanish
domain. We must pardon him, however,
when remembering that in the country
mentioned the fan is an appendage insep-
arabic from lady's costume On every &C.
casion, the heat of the climate making it's
use necessary for comfort, and, in the
hands of vivacious and sparkling senC-
rita, doubly graceful adjunct Of the
toilet.
While fans have played conspicuous
part in history and poetry, it would be
neither entertaining nor especially profit
able to travel back to the early ages TO
discover their origin. Sufficient for US
that they exist, and axe the scepters
sWayed DER friends and foes.
In that sweet realm OF passion,
Where flowers, frills anu furbelows
And tlirt5 are ell the fashion
and that they are indeed weapons worthy
OF moments study. a lady who can
manipulate fan gracefully has now more
than half of the battle in the art of enter
tanning; unCOnsCiously, as she 5Ways it
to and fro, she sways the mind of her
listener, for there is a peculiar fascina-
ton about motion which few can resist,
and which can be more easily felt than
described. If you do not believe tbatyou
can be Iured on into realms of fancy and
waited high in the castles Of :air by the
breeze Of q fan il pretty woman's hand,
try it, and if, when she suddenly snaps it
together, ,yCu Go NOT descend from the
heights, then you ere 81 exception. Per
haps this influence of the fan may be a
sort of mesmeric one, and produces upon |
the subject that state IF mind which IS
mystery to Us ali. II mas long been &C
knowIedged Q formidable wespOn in love !
making, and even Byron gre1 persive |
over fan Wheu inditiug lines 10 it.
Besides It's power, the ian IL G wonder |
full help to good manners, FOR il il breaks |
hearts It also saves feelings by being me |
ambush q many . yawI-ycs, horrible |
rs IL may sound, and unocU0miug Is it is,
many q lady cannot resist the inclination
to yawn, hopelessly, desperately, when
trying to entertain some of the members
VI DoIGtOiu. L IiLNC Al LIZ uluu Oue par
ticular y0uug lady who lost three desira-
bic friends by her inyeteTate habit of
yawning without any attempt at conceal
ment. Now, the faa is 4 c tarming means
to this end, for it is +~r aasies thing
TO disappea- I'd ones fsG
at slightest notice AM I-..- all traces Of
WEAKNESS. And then, nat q dainty
screen it IS for the blushes W oh so often
spring unbidden to coy l.-'aan's cheek.
The size of the fan is sal ~ determine
the state OF the morals Of he period at
which it is fashionable, v Iel rye ones
were in vogue it indicated 7st re ladies
Of that day were extremely noe st, for as
cynical Nine. de Genlls sG.j Gg a the in
PRODUCTION of small fans IL France
when women were timid 81 blushed
they used to carry large frs, nd they
hid their faces behind them Now that
they blush no longer, and g u Undated
by nothing, they do not care 70 ide their
faces, and consequently thy AIRY but
ores" Herp! for US,
arge ones are Is mode, and J. one can
that we are other ms ne most
proper of maidens.